First Timer Handholding - MyBB to NixiHost

[MusicMaker]

Hi all and thanks in advance for any available help provided

Hopefully others here are familiar with NixiHost and can tell me what I've missed or done wrong.

It's likely something very simple but I've haven't hosted a site of any kind since early html days and some of the language found in the Install documentation is new to me so I can't even say for sure that I've followed it completely or correctly

My goal this morning was to figure out how to upload the necessary MyBB files to my domain host and, ideally, begin tinkering and tailoring the features by dinner time

Thus far, I've done the following:

Created a sub-folder under the main or home folder called forums and uploaded the entire contents of the Upload folder there.

Renamed the config.php file in the inc folder as directed. 

Updated all the following permissions as directed (I have not changed the Optional permissions yet):

chmod 666 inc/config.php inc/settings.php
chmod 777 cache/ cache/themes/ uploads/ uploads/avatars/

The documentation cautioned against uploading everything but gave no indication of what NOT to upload so I figured I could remove unnecessary files later once I discovered which ones might be problematic.

I've also now tried following this instruction but still with no changes apparent:

htaccess.txt

should be renamed to

.htaccess

and kept in the same directory,


I had hoped that, once the files were uploaded, permissions changed and htaccess.txt renamed that I'd see something resembling the image shown under Installer on the documentation and could move forward from there but, instead, all I'm seeing is a 404 not found error message.

Thanks and I'll update if I make any progress but I'm pretty much stumped now and need to step away before I break something haha

[Crazycat]

First, take care that your host is probably *nix one, so case-sensitive. Check if the directory you created is Forum or forum, the capital is important.
Second: in the Upload directory of MyBB, I don't think there is any useless file. All must be uploaded.
Third and last: check that you have uploaded the content of the Upload directory in four forum directory, and not hace uploaded the directory (and created a nex subdirectory).

[MusicMaker]

Hi Crazycat and thanks for reply


First, take care that your host is probably *nix one, so case-sensitive. Check if the directory you created is Forum or forum, the capital is important - Checked and Confirmed!


Second: in the Upload directory of MyBB, I don't think there is any useless file. All must be uploaded. - Yes, this is what I did. Not sure why the documentation page suggests doing so could be problematic


Third and last: check that you have uploaded the content of the Upload directory in four forum directory, and not hace uploaded the directory (and created a nex subdirectory).........

This last part has me curious as I'm confident I did it correctly but will double check now...

Here's what I see:

Nixihost root directory with all files and folders visible does not have a forum directory of it's own, just the one I created. And this is where I've moved every folder and file that was included in the Uploads folder I downloaded from MyBB. I could only transfer files, not folders, so was forced to create every single folder and subfolder manually before moving files into them. I've double checked every folder for spelling and upper vs. lower case and it's identical

Perhaps you'll see something in the screenshot that explains what I've done wrong if anything?

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According to ChatGPT, there's another step that involves Creating a Database that's required before accessing the installer. Curious why there's no mention of this in the documentation but I do see that my control panel has a section for managing databases so I'm looking around there now with GPT holding my hand haha

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SOLVED!!!

As visible in my screenshot, I had placed the forums directory in the root directory provided by NixiHost

By picking ChatGPT's brain for 20 minutes, I realized that their folder tree has a folder called public_html which is where everything belongs.

Moved the forum folder into that folder, refreshed my page and boom! Prompted to install!

Thanks for giving me a place to think this through. I'll mark the thread as solved and most likely be back with more questions later.

Cheers!